Museums and Collections

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

Collection of fossils, plants, and ancient animals encased in amber.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

See the sky in a new way through this art installation.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

The world's foremost museum dedicated entirely to the abacus.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

A microcosm of the whaling industry in a small Australian town.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

Of course Salvador Dalí lived in a castle...

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

The place where World War I began.